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11 February 2010 - 14:18 AMT

7 kg of heroin brought to Armenia via Armenian-Turkish border

RA Prosecutor General's Office and the RA Police revealed cases of illicit trafficking in <b>narcotic drugs</b> (opium and heroin) of big amounts. On February 8, based on data obtained in preliminary investigation an Iranian citizen was detained on the Ashtarak-Yerevan highway who had 4750 grams of opium in his car. The same day a citizen of Russia Hovhannes Davtyan was arrested, 7 kilograms of heroin as found in his car. The confiscated heroin was smuggled into Armenia – across the closed Armenian-Turkish border. The market price of drugs made USD 2 million, press office of the General Prosecutor's office reported.